Critical Infrastructure Security

Use the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework to better protect your critical infrastructure assets

If you operate a critical infrastructure, you face a double challenge: defending your business against attacks while trying to understand the very thing that could help you—the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework.

Infrastructure security from IBM is designed to educate you on the details of this US government-ordered framework.

Benefits

Infrastructure security

We offer a more cost-effective way to align NIST guidance with your organization’s cybersecurity operation by helping you:

Adopt a sustainable methodology for assessing and planning your industrial controls security based on the framework

Better manage industry and NIST standards

Determine how mature your cybersecurity program is against NIST-defined tiers

Discover whether implementing changes to attain a higher tier is necessary—and how it may affect your business

Perform self-assessments

How it works

We can assess your industrial controls against a security baseline, recommend improvements and develop a plan to help enhance your security program.

Educates your key stakeholders about the NIST Cybersecurity Framework

Assesses your security maturity relative to the guidelines, best practices and international standards in the framework

Identifies appropriate action for high-risk areas

Develops a prioritized mitigation strategy to help you realize a more security-rich cyber environment